From:	pjfarley AT dorsai DOT org (Peter J. Farley III)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Printing on the printer
Date:	Fri, 26 Sep 1997 00:29:20 GMT
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
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>Did you actually try this?  "PRN:" fails for me; "PRN" (without the 
>colon) works.

Yes, it works fine in my Win95 DOS box.  I wrote and tested it before
I posted it.

>DOS knows the device names without the colon, so it's a bad idea to 
>include them when you call `fopen'.

Hm-m-m.  Yes, I think you are correct on that.  Just old habit of
mine, I'm afraid.

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Peter J. Farley III (pjfarley AT dorsai DOT org)

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